SubMiner/release/prerelease-notes.md

This is a prerelease build for testing. Stable changelog and docs-site updates remain pending until the final stable release.

Highlights

Added

• Watch History Browser
  • New subminer -H / --history command to browse your local watch history, replay the last episode, jump to the next one, or pick an episode via fzf/rofi.
  • The rofi picker now shows AniList cover art for each show, making it easier to spot the right title at a glance.
• Card Audio Normalization
  • Audio extracted for Anki cards is now volume-normalized by default for more consistent playback loudness.
  • If you prefer the original source volume, disable it via the new ankiConnect.media.normalizeAudio setting.

Changed

• New App Icon
  • SubMiner now ships pixel-art submarine artwork, contributed by an anonymous community member.
  • Applied across the app icon, tray icon, notifications, README, docs site, and stats page.

Fixed

• Character Name Highlighting in Subtitles
  • Fixed unspaced Japanese names (e.g. 東紫乃, 渡辺真奈美) being split at the wrong point, which left surnames like 東 and 渡辺 without their character portrait or hover lookup.
  • Fixed names getting cut off or losing their highlight when caught by the subtitle scanner's punctuation handling or by conflicting grammar tagging.
  • No action needed — existing data upgrades automatically the next time a matching name is seen.
• Known-Word Highlighting
  • Words are no longer marked "known" (green) just because they share spelling with a known Anki card that actually teaches a different reading (e.g. 床 read as とこ no longer falsely matches a known 床/ゆか card).
• Unparsed Subtitle Text
  • Subtitle text the dictionary can't recognize (like a truncated verb form) is now still hoverable for lookup and correctly counted toward a sentence's difficulty, instead of showing as dead, non-interactive text.
• Kiku Manual Field Grouping
  • Fixed the field-grouping dialog getting stuck invisible behind fullscreen video on Hyprland/Wayland, and failing silently on repeated attempts after the first use.
  • Fixed a duplicate "Field grouping cancelled" notification appearing when grouping was cancelled via the trigger shortcut.
• Secondary Subtitles
  • Karaoke-style secondary subtitles (common in opening/ending songs) no longer spam dozens of lines down the screen; repeated lines are now collapsed and the subtitle area is capped to a strip at the top.
• YouTube Extraction
  • Fixed direct YouTube stream extraction occasionally corrupting the stream URL and causing failed audio/video capture.
• Background Stats Server
  • Launching SubMiner in the background now correctly auto-starts the stats server when enabled, and won't start a duplicate if one's already running.
• Stats Trend Charts
  • All trend chart titles now show by default, with the ability to hide specific titles (remembered across sessions) and cap how many top titles a chart displays.

What's Changed

• fix(youtube): parse mpv EDL stream URLs with byte-length guards by @ksyasuda in #134
• Normalize generated Anki audio by default by @ksyasuda in #135
• feat(launcher): add -H/--history command to browse local watch history by @ksyasuda in #136
• fix(overlay): prevent field grouping modal from freezing overlay on Hyprland by @ksyasuda in #138
• fix(overlay): collapse karaoke syllable spam in secondary subtitles by @ksyasuda in #139
• feat(stats): Trends dashboard overhaul — title visibility, ranking modes, calendar-accurate windows, tooltips by @ksyasuda in #140
• feat(branding): replace app icon with contributed pixel-art set by @ksyasuda in #141
• feat(anki): reading-aware known-word matching (cache v3) by @ksyasuda in #142
• fix(stats): start stats server on background app launch by @ksyasuda in #144
• fix(tokenizer): keep unparsed Yomitan tokens hoverable by @ksyasuda in #145
• fix(overlay): resolve unspaced Japanese name splits and scan recovery by @ksyasuda in #146

Installation

See the README and docs/installation guide for full setup steps.

Assets

• Linux: SubMiner.AppImage
• macOS: SubMiner-*.dmg and SubMiner-*.zip
• Windows: SubMiner-*.exe and SubMiner-*-win.zip
• Optional extras: subminer-assets.tar.gz and the subminer launcher

Note: the subminer wrapper script uses Bun (#!/usr/bin/env bun), so bun must be installed and on PATH.